Papers from a Conference held at the Brookings Inst. in Dec. 1988, sponsored by the Institution, International Monetary Found and Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Incluye bibliografía

Introduction -- 1. The Theory and Practice of International Policy Coordination: Does Coordination Pay? / Comments Vito Tanzi, Jeffrey A. Frankel -- 2. Domestic and Cross-Border Consequences of U.S. Macroeconomic Policies / Comments Haruhiko Kuroda, David Begg -- 3. Policy Analysis with a Multicountry Model / Comments Manfred J. M. Neumann, Ralph Tryon -- 4. Implications of Policy Rules for the World Economy / Comments Patrick Minford, David A. Currie -- 5. Simulating the Effects of Some Simple Coordinated Versus Uncoordinated Policy Rules / Comments Jeffrey R. Shafer, Stanley Fischer -- 6. The Stabilizing Properties of Target Zones / Comments Michael Mussa, James M. Boughton -- 7. The Exchange Rate Question in Europe / Comments William H. Branson, Mario Draghi -- 8. The European Monetary Union: An Agnostic Evaluation Daniel Cohen and Charles Wyplosz / Comments Massimo Russo, Alberto Giovannini -- 9. The Role of International Institutions in Surveillance and Policy Coordination / Comments Sylvia Ostry, Jacques J. Polak -- 10. Macroeconomic Interactions Between the North and South David Vines and Anton Muscatelli / Comments Michael P. Dooley, Pierre Defraigne.